2010 AMERICAN ALPINE JOURNAL: The World’s Most Significant Climbs – Volume 52 – Issue 84

In this year’s American Alpine Journal, Jack Tackle climbs Thunder Mountain
and reflects on his long history of putting up cutting-edge Alaskan routes;
Denis Urubko puts up a hard new alpine-style route on Cho Oyu for his 14th
8,000m peak; Dodo Kopold solos a new route on Annapurna South; Marko Prezelj
leads a Slovenian hat trick in the Bhagirathi group; young Chinese climbers
introduce high-standard Chinese alpinism to their own mountains; and Joe
Puryear puts up another great Himalayan first ascent, this time on virgin Jobo
Rinjang in Nepal. Plus more from India, Canada, and points between.

Nearly 150 pages of exciting stories about the most important climbs of the
year, as told by the climbers themselves, and reviews of the best climbing
books of the year
Nearly 250 pages of short reports from new routes in the world’s mountains-
also told by the climbers themselves